From pandemic to policy: combating swine flu
01 January 2010A new collaborative project aims to understand how pandemic viruses jump the species barrier and spread through communities.
BioBullets mussel in on water mains
01 January 2010Pipes blocked by an invasion of freshwater mussels pose a severe problem to the water industry. A tiny, fat-coated capsule could provide the answer.
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
01 January 2010For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
A measure of prison performance
01 January 2010Pioneering research by Cambridge criminologists is helping prison managers to understand what makes a good prison.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren’t always best
22 December 2009Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to...
Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes
17 December 2009Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother of...
Genetic studies reveal new causes of severe obesity in childhood
07 December 2009Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that loss of a key segment of DNA can lead to severe childhood obesity. This is the first study to...
New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease
01 December 2009A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.
Biology, training, and profit sharing make best traders
24 November 2009Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis.